Folding table



(No Model.)

0. M. BOLLES.

FOLDING TABLE. No. 307,623. Patented Nov. 4,1884.

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CHARLES MORRIS BOLLES, OF DALLAS, TEXAS. I

' FOLDING TABLE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 307,623, dated November 4, 1884. Application filed March 5, 1884. (No model.)

T 0 ctZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, CHARLES M. BOLLES, of Dallas, in the county of Dallas and State of Texas, have invented a new and Improved Folding Table, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

My invention relates to improvements in folding tables; and it consists in the peculiar construction and arrangement of parts, as here inafter fully described, and pointed out in the claim.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification, in which similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the figures.

Figure l is a face View of my improved folding table, showing it folded and parts be ing broken out. Fig. 2 is a plan view of the under side of the same, the table being unfolded. Fig. 3 is a side elevation of the bracerod.

The table is constructed with a triangular top plate, A, resting on atriangular frame, 13, having three fixed legs, 0.

To the long edge or hypotenuse of the triangular top plate A a triangular leaf, D, is hinged to swing downward, which leaf, when raised, is supported by an adjustable leg, E,secured 0n the outer end of a dovetailed strip, F, constructed so as to slide 011 the underside of the plate A on a line extending from the apex of the plate A to the middle of the hypotenuse. Two beveled strips, G, hold and guide the strip F on the under side of the plate A. The strip F passes through a slot in the frame B. The beveled. strips H are secured,slight1y inclined to each other, on the under side of the leaf D, and between them the outer end of the strip F passes when drawn out to support the leaf D. A brace-rod, K, is secured to the leg E and to the inner end of the strip F, and when the strip F is withdrawn the inner end part of the rod K strikes against the frame B,t-h us preventing withdrawing the strip F too far. An oblong or square leaf, L, is hinged to one of the catheti of the plate A, which leaf is adapted to swing downward, and can be held raised by a strip, M, pivoted in a slot in the corresponding side piece of the frameB.

\Vhen folded,the table is triangular in shape, and can be placed in the corner of a room. If it is to be enlarged, it is removed from the corner, the'leaf D is swung up, the 'leg E is drawn out, as shown in Fig. 2, to support the leaf D, the leaf L is raised, and the strip M is swung under it to hold it raised.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

The combination, with a table having a triangular top plate, A, of the hinged triangular leaf D, the sliding strip F, the leg E, and the brace-rod K, secured on the inner end of the strip F and on the leg E, substantially as herein shown. and described.

CHARLES MORRIS BOLLES.

Witnesses:

CHAS. FRED. TUCKER, W. G. TUCKER. 

